Save Torbay Hospital

03/11/2026

Get your tickets now!

📅 Thursday 12 November 2026
📍 Teign Corinthian Yacht Club, The Eastcliff Clubhouse
⏰ 7.00pm to 11.00pm

Join us for a Pasty and Shanty Night in aid of Save Torbay Hospital!

Tickets are £15 and include a Chef's Pasty. To book, email [email protected]

The evening's running order:
🎶 7.15pm to 8.00pm Saucy Sue
🥧 8.00pm to 8.30pm Pasty Time!
🎶 8.30pm to 9.15pm Hooligans Rule
🎶 9.30pm to 10.15pm Marldon Wonky Donkeys

🅿️ Free parking nearby at East Cliff Carpark

We would love to see you there for an evening of music and pasties, supporting your local hospital.

03/11/2026

Is specialist care at Torbay Hospital quietly shutting down at weekends?

Our A&E staff work incredibly hard under immense pressure, and this is no criticism of them. But worrying reports suggest that if you have a serious medical emergency on a Saturday or Sunday, the specialist teams you need may simply not be on duty.

Here's what we've been told:

Possible stroke: A man in his 70s was taken to A&E after a fall. Because of his history of stroke, he had an CT but reportedly no one at Torbay was available to read it. The scan was sent to Derriford in Plymouth, and he was told the results could take several days to come back. Thankfully it wasn't a stroke, but what if it had been?

Heart emergency: A woman in her late 60s was admitted on a Sunday evening with a cardiac incident. Reportedly, there was no cardiologist or arrhythmia nurse on duty to give specialist care.

Severe kidney stones: A man in his 50s was admitted with acute kidney stones. Because the local renal team allegedly doesn't work weekends, Torbay staff had to phone the Royal Devon and Exeter just to get advice.

This doesn't look like a one-off staffing problem. It looks like the gradual hollowing out of our acute services, leaving local patients reliant on Exeter or Plymouth for time-critical care.

Have you or a loved one faced delays or missing specialist cover at Torbay over a weekend?

Please share your experience in the comments.

Our community deserves answers.

02/11/2026

What's REALLY happening at Torbay Hospital? Hear it first-hand tomorrow!

Susie Colley, Chair of Save Torbay Hospital, will be live on Torbay Radio tomorrow morning (Tuesday 3 November) between 9 and 11am with the very latest on the fight for our hospital.

This is OUR hospital and these are OUR services. Everyone in the Bay deserves to know what's going on.

So pop the kettle on, turn up the radio and tell your friends and neighbours to do the same!

🎧 Listen on FM 107.9 or online at www.torbayradio.com

30/10/2026

A huge thank you to everyone in Brixham who came along to last night's public meeting, and to the organisers for giving the Save Torbay Hospital campaign the chance to update residents.

Thank you also to Carolyn Voaden MP for sharing the Liberal Democrats' view. It's good to hear her confidence in the assurances we've been given, and believe me, we all want her to be right.

But our job is to look at the full picture, and that picture is more complicated. Cardiac critical care has not been stopped from moving to Exeter. It has been PAUSED, and it remains part of the 5–10 year plan for Devon.

We are also hearing from 22 professionals working in our health services who are telling us, with real concern, what they see happening on the ground. With the future of the tower block now in question too, we can't simply take reassurances at face value.

PAUSED is not SAVED or STOPPED

We'll keep asking the questions, keep sharing what we find, and keep standing up for Torbay Hospital. Thank you, Brixham. Your support matters more than ever.

Susie Colley

29/10/2026

🔥 Who is in charge of fire safety at Torbay Hospital?

This month we learned that Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service has served the Trust with an enforcement notice covering floors 4 to 8 of the Tower Block. The Trust has until the 18th December to make the changes needed so that people can escape safely if there is a fire.

Now we find the Trust is advertising for a Senior Fire Safety Adviser (Band 8a). The job description calls this the Trust’s senior professional lead for fire safety, the person who gives the Board assurance on fire risk.

So we have to ask:
❓ Is this post vacant right now, while the Tower Block is under an enforcement notice?

❓ If so, how long has it been empty, and who has been doing the job in the meantime?

❓ Is this a new post? If it is, why was it only created after the fire service stepped in?

❓ What fire safety assurance has the Board received over the past year?

Patients on those floors are often among the least able to get themselves out in an emergency. The people of Torbay deserve straight answers.

We will be asking the Trust these questions formally. 💙

28/10/2026

📅 Sunday 22 November
📍 Foxhole Community Centre, Belfield Road, Paignton
⏰ From 10:30am

Save Torbay Hospital will have a stall at the Free Kick Start to Christmas, presented by The Kings Ash Community Partnership in conjunction with Foxhole Community Centre Association. It is a wonderful festive day for the whole community, with free food, free entertainment, craft stalls, Christmas carols with local choirs and a free visit to Santa with a free gift!

We would love your help:
✅ Local Paignton volunteers to man the stall
✅ Donations of arts, crafts and bric-a-brac for the stall
✅ Donations of prizes for the raffle

To volunteer or donate, please email [email protected]

Thank you so much for your support!

27/10/2026

Calling all crafters, artists and producers! We are looking for donations of handmade gifts, art and produce for our Christmas Market stall, with every sale helping to fund the legal fight to save Torbay Hospital.

📅 Friday 11, Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 December 2026
📍 Christmas Market at Occombe Farm, Paignton

What we would love:
✅ Handmade gifts and crafts
✅ Paintings, prints and cards
✅ Christmas decorations and wreaths
✅ Knitted and sewn items
✅ Candles, soaps and gifts
✅ Jams, chutneys and treats
✅ Woodwork, pottery and jewellery

Torbay Hospital is the heart of our community, and vital services including cardiac care and A&E are under threat of being moved away. We are a volunteer-run campaign raising money for legal action to keep them local, for every family in Torbay and South Devon. One handmade gift could help protect care for thousands.

Please donate by Monday 30 November, though late donations are gratefully received too. To donate an item, email [email protected]

All post-campaign surplus funds will be donated to Rowcroft Hospice.

27/10/2026

📅 Monday 30 November 2026
📍 Buckland Athletic Football Club, Homers Heath, Kingskerswell Road, Newton Abbot, TQ12 5JU
⏰ 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start

Our next open meeting is for Newton Abbot and surrounding areas, with Susie Colley speaking about the Save Torbay Hospital campaign.

The campaign is working to protect local hospital services and to raise awareness of proposed changes that could affect communities across Torbay and South Devon. This is your chance to learn about the campaign, hear how proposed changes may affect local people, ask questions, share your views and find out how you can support us.

All welcome, please come along and support your local hospital.

See you there!

27/10/2026

Susie received a letter from the Department of Health and Social Care, written by the Minister of State for Health. It says any substantial changes to services should be subject to appropriate engagement and, where necessary, public consultation. They should also meet the government's and NHS England's four tests for good decision making:

✅ Strong public and patient engagement
✅ Consistency with current and future patient choice
✅ A clear clinical evidence base
✅ Support from clinical commissioners

We don't see a world where any of those four standards are met let alone all of them! Please get it touch if you feel as strongly about this issue as we do.

Local people. Local hospital. Our future.

26/10/2026

📣 | We have secured a further £8m for the fire safety work needed in Torbay Hospital's Tower Block.

We've also agreed our plan for the temporary service moves needed while this work takes place.

The moves will keep services within Torbay and South Devon, and no services are closing as part of the plan.

Read about what's changing, what it means for patients and what happens next: https://buff.ly/FEb3wux